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Why Billionaire Industrialists Are Snapping Up India’s Fashion Brands

Mega-conglomerates Reliance Industries Limited and Aditya Birla Group have invested in more than a dozen Indian designer brands. There is more to the deals than meets the eye.

A model walks down the runway at a Rahul Mishra show. They are wearing a bejewelled multicolour low cut blazer with a ruby and diamond necklace. — Companies controlled by Reliance Industries Limited have invested in well-known designers including Rahul Mishra. (Indigital)

Phyllida Jay

15 July 2022

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The dealings of Asia’s second-richest man demonstrate how investors’ motivations can be far more complex and multi-faceted than they seem. Reliance Industries Limited chairman Mukesh Ambani spent nearly $1 billion in the first quarter of this year on companies in e-commerce, energy and other sectors, but it is the Indian magnate’s much smaller investments in fashion that have attracted a disproportionate amount of attention.

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